Masked Marauder

If I remember correctly from my younger days, regardless of make or model of car, all plugs should be gapped to the thickness of the cardboard from a cigarette packet. The correct way to close the gap is to tap the electrode on anything hard, usually the nearest kerb-stone. :D :( :D

Pssst, Katman, it is an Aprilla motorbike.

There are two IIRC, one for over pressure and one for under.

There is a way of doing it that involves removing the bumper and cutting the mounting holes to slots so you can remove it through the front of the car.

Yep, just don't lose the "O" ring......

Other than checking tyres, lights etc, it is indeed just an oil and filter change.

You don't win on eBay, it is not a competition! You have to pay for the stuff you know! lol!

No, you would only try to take it to bits and then have parts left over when you put it all back together....

Humane killer or lethal injection?

Bypass the cooler, see if any oil drips out of it when the coolant system is bypassed, if there is then the cooler is busted. Change the cooler, flush the cooling system and see if the oil in the water comes back. If it does, have a test done for exhaust gas in the water.

Volkswagon Watercooled - Sharan - Belts and Tensioners If in doubt ring the sales team and ask for the GSF reference number, return to the web site and put it into the GSF Part Number box.

Thin spokes are too thin, chunky too fat! Get some Compomotive MOs.......

Sorry chap, your post slipped by me! Give me 30 minutes and I will look, but it is most likely just an oil change until 100K miles

We will be coming, which would you prefer, book through you or book the pitch directly with the campsite?

A leak at the air-filter end should not affect the engine. Perhaps you also have another fault like a temperature sensor problem.

Top bannana! Shame that you had to go back time and time again though.

Looks good, I will have a word with the boss....

Could this be caused by a faulty engine roll restrictor damper?

Well manual air-con is either on or off, there are no temperature sensors to control the heat of the airflow. The temperatures should be as shown on the graph above.

As long as it goes round with the joint it should work fine. Short of hooking up VAG-COM, I don't know what else it could be.

I still think it is the ABS ring on the CV joint...

Aye, and it is not going to cost much more for the stealer to program 3 keys than just one.

Are you talking about air-con or climate control?

Glad to hear you got it fixed. As you had to change the pump then it would most likely have been the pressure relief valve spring. failing.

Just for now, lets call a substance that is gasseous at room temperature at a pressure of 1 atmosphere a gas! A gas that becomes liquid under low compression is not compressable. IIRC R134a becomes a liquid at about 173psi, a pressure at which other gasses are still gas! So refridgerant has been designed to be a poorly compressable gas.